VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2021

Discord Channels – Spotify – Fireside (Mark Cuban’s investment) – Facebook(Rooms?) – Open Source (Jam) – Telegram (voice chats 2.0) #audio pic.twitter.com/gVB5h0IcMC — Eze Vidra (@ediggs) April 2, 2021. 31 employees according to Linkedin, but seems to be bootstrapped. Bootstrapped.

Audio 139

Audio Software Review Open Source Social Network 139

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

First is that there are, perhaps, a thousand people in the world of entrepreneurship who know what they are doing when it comes to dealing with issues like financing, positioning, market sizing, customer validation, customer acquisition and other seemingly obvious topics that all entrepreneurs need to deal with. On to the roundtable recap.

Silicon Valley 114

Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup Early Stage 114

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

I also advised Antonio to defer his investor road show and even customer acquisition programs until this basic positioning exercise is in place. IDES is an analytics enhancement for fraud prevention systems addressing the credit card fraud market. And these pilots will pay for her early bootstrapping phase. IDES Technologies.

Partner 117

Partner Belgium Portugal Bootstrapping 117

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. As for the entrepreneur pitches, first up today was Bhupendra Kanal with InRev , a social CRM analytics company.

Senegal 117

Senegal Nevada Bootstrapping Silicon Valley 117

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2017

I’ve spent most of my corporate career in online acquisition marketing and while the numbers always start out nice, there will always be a ceiling of how much profitable marketing one can do through the web. We don’t have a budget that has to be spent so I wanted to think outside of online acquisition. It is a hard, hard road.

Marketing 48

Marketing Design Acquisition Bootstrapping 48

Software By Rob

JUNE 25, 2013

The confusion arises because we fail to make a distinction between the growth strategies that are relevant to venture backed startups as opposed to the strategies that are relevant to bootstrapped startups. Paid channels can lead to incredible growth, but let’s be honest, they require at least some capital to do well. Not Competition.

Venture Capital 71

Venture Capital Bootstrapping Distribution Conversion Ratio 71

Software By Rob

JUNE 20, 2013

The confusion arises because we fail to make a distinction between the growth strategies that are relevant to venture backed startups as opposed to the strategies that are relevant to bootstrapped startups. Paid channels can lead to incredible growth, but let’s be honest, they require at least some capital to do well. Not Competition.

Venture Capital 40

Venture Capital Bootstrapping Distribution Conversion Ratio 40